Thursday, March 19, 2015

Nintendo NX & Mobile - More Video Discussions

Nintendo has taken the video game industry by storm these last few days with all the news on making games for Mobile and announcing a the code named Nintendo NX to be revealed next year. Not only that but Nintendo's stock has gone up by over 30% in the last two days after the announcements with anticipation of the company making a lot of money from these new avenues in the near future.

Nintendo Next is going to be a hybrid; there isn't going to be a two separate system deal simply because Nintendo lost a lot of money with 3DS and Wii U early on and it has taken a very weak Yen for the company to recover enough to get back to making money again. Having one system combined would actually help in keeping costs to one system.

@A#1: Yeah; except Nintendo's treatment of the Wii was horrible at the end of it's lifespan and it hurt Wii U as a whole. And New Super Mario Brother Wii was the game of the gen; not Mario Galaxy, even if that game did better than Super Mario 64 did.

Everything else is speculation and I don't really care about their mobile deal. "Smart"phones are the new PC and they did more damage to clunky PC's than they did with 3DS and to a lesser extent PSVita.

@A#3: Okay; you are right about the 3DS hardware being profitable; my brain farted on that. I need a citation on the Wii U hardware making a profit because I was never told that. Then again; I haven't been watching the industry closely over the last two years. Yeah; the DeNA deal is a huge deal.

Nintendo's situation is indeed better in 2015 than it was in 2011 when they lost $830 million or so; but it is nowhere near the profits during the time Wii and DS were released and the Yen is much, much weaker now compared to then, which is one of the major factors Nintendo is in the black now.

By the way; I haven't seen Sony's finances in recent years; that's the only reason you are saying that. I cannot make heads nor tails on the rest of your comments. Are you for a hybrid or not? It's hard to tell.